On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 04:59:52PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:

Ah, I see what you were saying now. It looks like it will work to me if
you think it is better stylistically.

Yeah, having a function return an error *and* an I/O parameter at the
same time is more complicated and error prone instead of when you have
a single retval and only input parameters.

I'd say.

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